I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
Chris Martin
You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.
If you don't let love in, then you can't really give it back.
I don't mind not being cool.
You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.
Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.
To be totally honest with you, I'm so happy to be alive every day.
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
People who write happy songs are often unhappy.
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.
A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
Once a week, I don't eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that's why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.
When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.
For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.
I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!
Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
To me, India's always represented 'everything'; it represents 'all.' Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you'll never feel like you've missed out on life.
There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.
I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our band sometimes a punch line?'
Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.
I don't actually own a car.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is.
Somebody rang me up the other day and said 'Yellow' was on a karaoke machine. That made me genuinely excited. It's got a nice beat.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.
